-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Here is some salt to the salad:
1. The FSF has been lurking on an ARM-based SoC with only one component left to liberate: the video decoder. (I hope that) work is underway to provide this last bit of software. The SoC model is based on Freescale I.MX6 processor family. So you're probably competing at least against the Wandboard[0]. Anything less than that is likely to cost more to produce and probably won't attract nor convince anyone but <10K hardware hackers. 2. One thing that hardware freedom can do that a megacorp cannot is design for durability and extensibility instead of designing for planned obsolescence. IMO, Ben's successor should be not planned as an encased nano-computer but as an extensible and hackable platform. The case should be one of the ways to use it, maybe its default form factor, but should not be the only one. I.e., it should be repurposable as a network device (maybe a Freedom Box?), a wearable glue machine, a thing-of-the Internet, an Arduino for adults: in brief, it should be able to have sex with other Bens and make chipdren. 3. Production shouldn't start unless there are already *at least* 10,000 units pre-ordered, and there should be an easy plan to make it dead simple to adapt the design to new demand. Of course, when talking about hardware it's pretty much a conundrum or a puzzle, as you see fit. Still, it's easier to sell future extensibility than future obsolescence. 4. Its production should not depend on a single person / entity that assumes all risk. That has proven to fail. If the world is not ready for freedom, you won't force it. Remember: worse is better ;o) == hk [0] http://www.wandboard.org/index.php/buy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJS+7TrXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFQ0IyNkIyRTNDNzEyMTc2OUEzNEM4ODU0 ODA2QzM2M0ZDMTg5ODNEAAoJEEgGw2P8GJg9LO4P/1PWST1J8g+6RGBhmou19Mxw sc2kcBm0/Xcs2HXg9naM91c+3XmNFyT9Ric2M+KEm2qUOEWc49wqIWKUrzHvqqqT OCkPYQSQ3pFMx3owXqqVuIGq29xjbeqwTf/lTqE3AVfR8fW2H3HILTSt56IZFHYV tTrh4LoaC9DBd+hUG8NJqqIHaeRB0492/HVqJgfMZH+Qvneqcm99UQ1gmS3S/mp8 ANXMxKBUB6recSFJRPGrJanD5kA9pOcEvw9YM/A1jp8r2cVZ2bwqFIIVPlqysX9a 1XGINw2eNrlPAVWj7kZQPbAQvjempxkzoi0duNONoS5jS0QsOkPQOw4W4B7YrzPU sC5f8yoDLJIwvUoq+iQZdvvKaWKNtU0IIYlzBRuqoALV2+X1S0+V6WuhNTiVY3Y7 /q10/7S0LVHe/TOJtvKS2O0Y2q+Sw5epeu4SCJhQY94xuPHJOy3K2Hfw7Dszj/20 e1i0yHxTJ2Eomv1fQZa/VYbXB7KtYfL9NLp+YIcykWXnwn59l4rh3BMlS+ReJukG 7hdglWBbiPRkZo48U1iA04vO/Dp/XLN5MISHmD1wXw+CLEw6z9R1kpwXF9PT5u9B Mwb6S2XqNMlIH93ISW0sRvdbc2CjJBsTXWWprBDChKlrQV6flXz50tqG5gdOyGJ2 3Brz2nB6Y4pDoKb0iZzh =dhXa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
